I'm enjoying the Spiral City storyline overall, but I'm also aware that it's falling short of some of the other arcs of the property for a variety of reasons. It took me some time to like Insector in the previous books, but I'm liking him here. The main problem is that there's just such a grim oppressiveness to everything that's feeling even worse by events in the real world, which in turn makes it harder to engage with. I'm not looking for pure escapism, but taking secondary at best characters and placing them in this situation with several new characters, and it's hard to really make that bond with. I'm curious to see how it all comes together, and to see if it all reads better in a single session, but I'm still enjoying it piece by piece as well. Read Full Review